I pay for services (including lemmy - support your instance leeches) and use an ad blocker for everything else.
Comment on YouTube devs be like
kibiz0r@midwest.social 4 weeks agoI’ve been stewing on making an “unpopular opinion” post about how neckbeards ruined the internet by demanding everything be “free” (meaning ad-supported) and then using ad blockers (meaning the normies had to pick up the slack).
huginn@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Ah yes
The failing newspaper strategy
Evrala@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m fine with having to pick between ads and paying for a service, but when there are ads when I paid not to see them…
I pay for YouTube premium and have for several years, but if I start seeing ads I’ll go to watching Nebula and listening to podcasts and cut out YouTube.